Hawaii selected for Thirty Meter Telescope
Posted: Fri, Jul 24 1:57 PM ET (1757 GMT)
An international consortium selected Hawaii's Mauna Kea this week as the future site of what will be the world's largest telescope. The Thirty...

Suit problem cuts short spacewalk
Posted: Thu, Jul 23 8:40 AM ET (1240 GMT)
The third spacewalk of the STS-127 shuttle mission ended early on Wednesday when a problem developed with one of the spacewalker's suits. Astronauts...

Russia launches two satellites
Posted: Wed, Jul 22 2:37 PM ET (1837 GMT)
A Kosmos rocket launched two satellites into orbit early Tuesday. The Kosmos-3M rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 11:...

Impact scar spotted on Jupiter atmosphere
Posted: Wed, Jul 22 2:32 PM ET (1832 GMT)
Exactly fifteen years after Jupiter was pummeled by a series of impact by comet fragments, another object apparently struck the planet and left behind a...

Astronauts complete second STS-127 spacewalk
Posted: Wed, Jul 22 2:18 PM ET (1818 GMT)
Two astronauts carried out a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Monday, the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Dave...

Japanese lab component installed on station
Posted: Sun, Jul 19 1:14 PM ET (1714 GMT)
Two spacewalkers worked through communications glitches Saturday as part of successful efforts to install a external experiment platform to the International Space Station. Astronauts Dave...

LRO returns images of Apollo sites
Posted: Sat, Jul 18 11:26 AM ET (1526 GMT)
NASA released Friday the highest-resolution images taken to date of most of the Apollo landing sites, showing details such as the descent stages of...

Shuttle docks at ISS
Posted: Fri, Jul 17 7:31 PM ET (2331 GMT)
The space shuttle Endeavour docked with the International Space Station on Friday afternoon, beginning an 11-day stay at the station. Endeavour docked with the...

Boeing wins four-satellite contract
Posted: Fri, Jul 17 9:40 AM ET (1340 GMT)
Boeing, which has not been a major player in the commercial satellite market in recent years, announced this week a contract for four satellites of...

NASA studying shuttle foam debris
Posted: Fri, Jul 17 9:24 AM ET (1324 GMT)
NASA shuttle managers said Thursday that they are studying "unusual" foam shedding from the shuttle's external tank during Wednesday afternoon's launch. In at...